Immoral consistency: Why calls by West to sideline Afghan cricket team reek of sports colonialism
What began as a boycott based on the International Cricket Council’s requirement that any nation with Test status must have an active women’s team has morphed into a catch-all protest against the numerous limitations placed on women and girls in the Islamic Emirate.
Proud Boys leaders free after Trump releases all January 6 rioters
The FBI classified the Capitol riot as an act of domestic terrorism, and the DOJ has spent the years since trying to hold those involved in the riot to account, a massive and costly undertaking. Nearly 1,600 defendants have been hit with federal charges in connection to the riot.
There are fears Trump’s executive order that repurposes an existing agency is designed to shield super-rich from public scrutiny
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.
Kenya’s youth protests is a groundswell to rid the country of the whims of a despot and hollow benevolence of the West
The ability of the Kenyan state to maintain this level of violence against its populace has always been contingent on the acquiescence and support of the Western world, which in the years between independence and the US-USSR détente that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, propped up Kenya as a bulwark against communism and valorised “stability” over justice.
Trump’s second coming dashes hopes of Somali refugees in sprawling Daadab camp in Kenya to live in US
Refugee admission quotas overall were also slashed. Tough new security checks meant the numbers of arriving refugees tumbled from the 84,994 recorded during Barack Obama’s last year in office to a record low of 11,814 in 2020 – although the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic also affected numbers.
Israel and Hamas swap hostages and prisoners in second phase of ceasefire deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Palestinians in Gaza will not be allowed to cross back to the northern part of the territory until the issue is resolved. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had been displaced from northern Gaza during the war and many were expecting to return from Sunday.
Eastern Congo capital, Goma, braces for M23 militia assault as UN warns of imminent biting humanitarian emergency
Since the UN peacekeeping Mission, MONUSCO, withdrew from South Kivu in June 2024, peacekeepers have defended key positions in North Kivu, including Goma and Sake, where clashes between the M23, the Congolese Armed Forces and many other armed groups have continued.
Uganda: After ecocide and ethnocide, now President Museveni is churning out zombies and presiding over intellectual genocide
In Uganda ethnocide and ecocide are taking place simultaneously as the cultural heads sustained by the centre, are wallowing in goodies and monies provided to them by the very government presiding over ecocides and ethnocides in their cultural areas. Virtually all cultural heads, politically deprived, are swimming in their diminishing cultural base and ecologies.
Nigerian soldiers kill 79 militants, suspected kidnappers as army ramps up war against rebels
The 2014 kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists in the village of Chibok in the north-eastern state of Borno – the epicentre of the conflict between armed groups and the military – captured the attention of the world.
Beatification of Congolese civil servant murdered for fighting corruption picks up, inspires generation
The Rev Francesco Tedeschi, an Italian priest who is spearheading the beatification cause as the postulator, said the Vatican decree of martyrdom indeed recognizes Kositi died out of hatred for the faith, because his decision to not accept the spoiled food was profoundly inspired by the Gospel.
